de Saldanha, the physicians, and surgeons.
An embargo was immediately laid on all the shipping in the port of
Lisbon. Rewards were publicly offered, together with the promise of
pardon to the accomplices, for detecting any of the assassins; and such
other measures used, that in a little time the whole conspiracy was
discovered: a conspiracy the more dangerous, as it appeared to have been
formed by persons of the first quality and influence. The duke de Weiro,
of the family of Mascarenhas; the marquis de Tavora, who had been
viceroy of Goa, and now actually enjoyed the commission of general of
the horse; the count de Attougui, the marquis de Alloria, together with
their wives, children, and whole families, were arrested immediately
after the assassination, as principals in the design; and many other
accomplices, including some Jesuits, were apprehended in the sequel.
The further proceedings on this mysterious affair, with the fate of
the conspirators, will be particularized among the transactions of the
following year. At present it will be sufficient to observe, that
the king's wounds were attended with no bad consequences; nor did the
imprisonment of those noblemen produce any disturbance in the kingdom.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY.

The domestic occurrences of France were tissued with a continuation
of the disputes between the parliaments and clergy, touching the
bull Unigenitus. In vain the king had interposed his authority: first
proposing an accommodation; then commanding the parliament to forbear
taking cognizance of a religious contest, which did not fall under their
jurisdiction; and, thirdly, banishing their persons, and abrogating
their power. He afterwards found it necessary to the peace of his
dominions to recall and reinstate those venerable patriots; and being
convinced of the intolerable insolence and turbulent spirit of the
archbishop of Paris, had exiled that prelate in his turn. He was no
sooner re-admitted to his function, than he resumed his former
conduct, touching the denial of the sacraments to those who refused
to acknowledge the bull Unigenitus: he even acted with redoubled zeal;
intrigued with the other prelates; caballed among the inferior clergy;
and not only revived, but augmented, the troubles throughout the whole
kingdom. Bishops, curates, and monks, presumed to withhold spiritual
consolation from persons in extremity, and were punished by the civil
power. Other parliaments